Populate a Microsoft Word template - to add line break

[ChanNT]

Hello,

I am trying to create a PDF file with data from Sharepoint list. That PDF will be converted from a Word file using Populate a Microsoft Word template action in PowerAutomate.

I created a Plain Text Content Control inside Repeating Section Content Control in word template and the problem is that if the data has line break in Sharepoint, it cannot have line break and show them in one sentence in word template. 

Is it possible to add line break in word template? 

Thank you in advance for your help. 

[Paulie78 · Accepted solution]

It is possible to have multiple lines. First thing you need to do is check the content control properties:

Otherwise new lines just get completely ignored. You will probably also need to use a CRLF instead of just a newline. You can make a CRLF like this:

Here is the expression:

concat(uriComponentToString('%0D'),uriComponentToString('%0A'))

[ChanNT]

Hi @Paulie78 ,

Thank you so much for your answer and it works now by turning on "Allow carriage returns" in template as you suggested.

But I am not quite sure about the concat function for CRLF in Power Automate. Could you please explain more about it?

Thank you.

[Paulie78]

If it works, no need to worry about the CRLF bit. Well done 👍

[Robert94]

Thanks, this saved me. It`s a game changed, even though we can`t use nested tables, but with this functions, we can concatenate an array and display it properly with line breaks.

[AlexEncodian]

@Robert94 

Encodian's Populate Word Document action enables this simply through the addition of Control Characters to the template e.g. line breaks, page breaks, tabs, paragraph breaks etc

No developer tools needed...its all plain text typing in the template (Template Syntax for Populate Word Document) along with lots of other value add populate word features including nested tables and various other value add features.